27 Va. App. 81 - Caudill v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2016
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Sullivan v. Ashe · Coppola v. Commonwealth · 21 Va. App. 519 - Gilliam v. Commonwealth · 25 Va. App. 629 - Canipe v. Commonwealth · 5 Va. App. 22 - Miller v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Heat of passion” refers to the furor brevis which renders a man deaf to the voice of reason. To establish the heat of passion defense, an accused must prove he committed the crime with “passion” and upon “reasonable provocation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Heat of passion' refers to `the furor brevis which renders a man deaf to the voice of reason.' An accused must show that he committed the crime with `passion' and upon `reasonable provocation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.